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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In SEL's latest issue, Chance David Pahl explores the "fractured essence of the periodical miscellany to promote tasteful consumption of literature," suggesting that "Brooke makes virtue of necessity while impressing a sense of legitimacy on the humble single-essay journal."

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In SEL 64.3, Melissa Merte examines the relationship between Horticultural displays and the representation of nineteenth-century womanhood. Merte argues that Elizabeth Gaskell uses settings such as greenhouses and indoor aquariums to construct a relationship between botanical...

Painting of white water lilies in background. In the foreground, white text states "Through horticultural displays, Gaskell symbolically aligns maturation and the marriage plot with the compulsion to collect and display that defined the nineteenth-century interest in plant life. Melissa Merte, 'Greenhouses, Water Lilies and the Gendered Horticultural Displays of Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters"

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

SEL's partner publication, Marginalia, has a new installment of our interview series Marginalia Office Hours. Preview our recent conversation w/ Dr. Ann C. Christensen, Professor of English at University of Houston and author of A Warning for Fair Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theatre.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New book review live on Marginalia! Morgan Bettin-Coleman reviews The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and the Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1883. Check out the full review now!

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In SEL 64.3, James O'Rourke reappraises Jane Austen's use of free indirect discourse in Pride and Prejudice. He argues that "it solicits an active reading that shreds the authority of the most straightforward assertions of both Elizabeth and the heterodiegetic narrator."

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New book review live on Marginalia! Grace Fox reviews Victorian Women and Wayward Reading which Fox describes as "[offering] an alternative identity for Victorian women readers: that of the wayward reader." Check out the full review now! marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/09/02/r...

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#CallforPapers SEL is still accepting proposals to a themed issue on Decolonizing Historical English Literary Studies. This call welcomes essays that imagine new possibilities for the study of historical English literature beyond colonial frameworks.

Background containing antique books, glasses, and globe. Text reads Call for papers for Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 on Decolonizing Historical English Literary Studies. Yellow box with text that states SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 invites contributions for our 66.4 (Autumn 2028) themed issue: Decolonizing Historical English Literary Studies. Submissions Due February 1, 2027. For submission guidelines and full CFP, please visit sel.rice.edu/open-cfps

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Check out this amazing video by Grace Lavery about papers featured in our latest SEL: The Roundtable in our 64.3 Summer 2026 issue! We're so happy to work with such amazing scholars! www.instagram.com/reel/Dcwr3-4...

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Happy early birthday to Mary Shelley! To celebrate Shelley's 229th birthday, we're looking back at "Frankenstein and the Progress of Civilizations" from SEL's Autumn 2022 62.4 issue. In the article, Mark Canuel reads "Frankenstein as a novel permeated less by tragedy than by precarious hope."

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🚨New Issue alert! SEL is pleased to announce the release of our new 64.3 Summer Issue. Our new issue features our second installment of SEL: The Roundtable, this time an exciting discussion on Trans Studies in the Eighteenth Century, featuring responses by Grace Lavery and Colby Gordon

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We are 1 week away from the launch of our Summer 2026 Issue, so for this #TBT we're looking back at an article in our Summer 1999 Issue, which has been getting a lot of attention from SEL readers recently.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Our upcoming Summer Issue (64.3) is almost here, perfect for any last minute summer reading and beach days! Follow our social media pages for updates on content and contributors.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Listen to Tracey Miller-Tomlinson speak about her article "Affective Circulation in Shakespeare's Henry V" which was featured in SEL's latest 64.2 Spring issue! Find the full article on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/990179

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In SEL's latest issue (64.2), Martin's thematic review examines recent studies in Tudor and Stuart drama through the lens of nature, environment, science, and ecology.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In SEL's 64.2 issue, Lupton's thematic review examines recent studies in space, place, and commonplace in Tudor and Stuart Drama. Lupton finds that "What emerges across these efforts is a sense of the expansive vistas of Shakespeare studies."

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Call for Papers! Consider submitting proposals to a themed issue on Decolonizing Historical English Literary Studies. This call welcomes essays that imagine new possibilities for the study of historical English literature beyond colonial frameworks. Full CFP and on our website sel.rice.edu/open-cfps

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🏖️Marginalia's staff are taking a well-deserved summer break! While they rest, travel, and enjoy their time, Marginalia will be on hiatus. Once our staff return in late August, we'll be back with new essays, interviews, and book reviews! Until then, please enjoy our back catalogue from our first year

Paper craft background with sun, clouds, plane, sunglasses, and flowers. Centered texts reads "Marginalia on summer hiatus. New content coming late august."

Paper craft background with sun, clouds, plane, sunglasses, and flowers. Centered texts reads "Marginalia's summer break checklist: catch up on summer reading, spend some time poolside, go on a road trip, relax and unwind!!!"

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our inaugural SEL: The Roundtable on Early Modern Women's Rage. Part of our Living Discourse initiative, SEL: The Roundtable brings together scholars to participate in a roundtable discussion surrounding a central theme.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In SEL's latest issue, Lee examines The Comedy of Errors as a conflict between the male-dominated commercial sphere and the female-dominated domestic one over an important resource: time.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In SEL's 64.2 issue, Miller-Tomlinson uses Henry V to reconceptualize the playhouse as an alternative model of affective economy. muse.jhu.edu/article/990179 Image Citation: Branston, Allen Robert, and Thurston, John. Henry V, Act V, Scene 2 . [1778-1827]. Folger Shakespeare Library. Artstor.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In SEL's 64.2 issue, Lee analyzes how the market disrupts the domestic space in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Lee argues that “the play ultimately affirms the vital role that women collectively play in preserving social unity and harmony." Read now on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/990178

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🪻SEL is entering our lavender era! SEL is pleased to announce the release of our Spring 2026 issue (64.2) featuring our inaugural installment of "SEL: The Roundtable." Read now on Project MUSE and stay tuned for more updates on contents and contributors. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56866

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 64.2, Spring 2026 Special Issue: Tudor and Stuart Drama tiny.one/2wvhrnse CONTRIBUTORS  Huey-Ling Lee Tracey Miller-Tomlinson Shannon Kelley Cora Fox Joanna Huh Haihong Yang Preea Leelah Patricia Wareh and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
64.2, Spring 2026

Special Issue: Tudor and Stuart Drama

CONTRIBUTORS 
Huey-Ling Lee
Tracey Miller-Tomlinson
Shannon Kelley
Cora Fox
Joanna Huh
Haihong Yang
Preea Leelah
Patricia Wareh
Julia Reinhard Lupton
Randall Martin

HOPKINS PRESS JOURNALS
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/sel-studies-english-literature-1500-1900

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

SEL's spring issue (64.2) is set to release later this month. We are excited to share a teaser of the cover image ahead of the issue's release. Leave your guesses on the cover image in the comments! *Hint* Our cover is bringing floral fashion for the summer weather!

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

For SEL's 65th anniversary, two undergraduate students conducted research in the SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 papers at the Woodson Research Center as part of the Fondren Fellows program.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

#OTD 167 years ago Dickens published the first issue of his literary magazine, All the Year Round featuring the of his classic text A Tale of Two Cities. Image Citation: Dickens Giving the Last Reading of His Works. n.d. Wellcome Collection. jstor.org/stable/commu....

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Calling all Macbeth fans! Codiamat reviews Macbeth Before Shakespeare which Codiamat describes as "[guiding] the reader through understanding the aspects of what we understand about the man Macbeth, as opposed to the literary character." Check out the review marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/04/21/t...

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In SEL's 64.1, Thierauf argues that infamous demographer Thomas Malthus influenced four works of spec fiction, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, and Filippo-Tommaso Marinetti’s Mafarka the Futurist.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In SEL's 64.1, Zigarovich examines eighteenth-century medical treatises to understand how intersex people were understood and how their bodies were categorized. Image Citation: Von Holst, Theodor, Victor Frankenstein Observing the First Stirrings of His Creature. 1831. Wellcome Collection.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In SEL's 64.1, Delucia reads antiabortion feminists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to understand and examine their uncritical adoption of Wollstonecraft’s words into their modern contexts. Find the full article on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/983662

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In SEL's latest issue, Peh places queer antisociality and disability studies’ “crip time” together in order to understand “the ruining effects of reproduction” in Hutchinson’s poetry. Image: Mater Dolorosa (Mourning Mother), 1776. George Romney The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It's a Victorian Studies weekend!! We hope you have a great time at NVSA and MVSA. A huge thank you to the organizers of each of these conferences for all of your hard work. SEL is proud to support @mvsa.bsky.social. We're excited for everyone's work! #MVSA2026 #NVSA2026

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We wish everyone a great ASECS 2026! Thank you to the organizers @asecsoffice.bsky.social for all of your incredible work! We look forward to everyone's work!

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Who doesn't love a good travel post? Check out the latest essay from our partner publication, Marginalia. Landry Wood visits Archer City, home of novelist and Rice alumnus Larry McMurtry and documents his trip to Booked Up, a bookstore once own by McMurtry. marginalia.blogs.rice.edu/2026/03/24/a...

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Happy #SHAX2026 to all! Thanks to the organizers @saaupdates.bsky.social for all of your hard work organizing the conference. We're excited for everyone's work!!

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Have you checked out SEL's inaugural installment of The Exchange? Our first conversation, between Susan Fraimon and Gayle Salamon is featured in our 64.1 Winter 2026 issue. Read the full conversation on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/983666

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

In SEL's latest issue, Brataas attends to Cavendish’s imagined future in which women’s potential is decoupled from reproduction. Brataas argues that Cavendish "envisioned ways in which Nature might allow for alternatives through concepts of extracorporeal reproduction." muse.jhu.edu/article/983658

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

In SEL 64.1, Chambers and Lesley argue that there is a pervasive “abortive poetics of tragedy” in early modern English dramas. Image: Hogarth, William. A Night Scene with Tom Nero Apprehended in a Church-Yard before the Murdered Body of a Pregnant Maidservant. 1 February 1751. JSTOR.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Looking for a home journal for your article? SEL is currently accepting original scholarly essay submissions for our upcoming issues. We welcome scholars at any career stage. If you want to submit your work to SEL head over to our website sel.rice.edu/open-cfps to learn more! #callforpapers

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

In SEL's 64.1 issue, Meek's thematic review assesses recent studies in reproduction and sexuality. Meek finds that the texts in her review reveal how in 1500-1900 "writers reimagined the notion of reproduction to include the creation not merely of human offspring...

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

In SEL's 64.1, Cardelli reads Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and Raleigh’s “Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” to understand the connections between “reproduction and environmental plenitude” (p. 43). Image: Sleeping Shepherds, 1663. Adriaen van de Velde. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In SEL's latest issue, Sheldon’s article centers readings of the Black abolitionist Robert Wedderburn, particularly his 1824 The Horrors of Slavery, to “historicize the family as an organ for the extraction of value under plantation slavery.” Read now on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/article/983663

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

In SEL 64.1, Miller’s article discusses flowers that resist being useful for reproduction in Victorian poetry. Miller argues that such a depiction of “unproductive flowering challenges the anthropocentric, agricultural value system that underwrites the reproductive imperative.”

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

In SEL's latest issue, McCall's article reads The Fortunate Transport to analyze mid-eighteenth-century connections between labor and race. McCall contends “The novel’s many reproducing women help us situate gendered labor at the heart of eighteenth-century geopolitical and fictional worldbuilding.”

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

SEL makes the best conference-traveling companion! Check out our latest winter issue (64.1) on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/56448

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

🚨 New Issue Alert! SEL is pleased to announce our latest issue Winter 2026 (64.1) is now available. A huge thank you to our guest editors Ashley Miller, Doreen Thierauf, and Livia Arndal Woods! Read now on Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/journal/178 and stay tuned for more updates on content!

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 64.1, Winter 2026 Special Issue: Reproduction Without Bodies, Bodies Without Reproduction tinyurl.com/37jaajta  CONTRIBUTORS Amy Kahrmann Huseby Ashley Miller Doreen Thierauf Livia Arndal Woods Hannah Chambers Lu Cardelli and more

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

#RenSA26 was such a great time. Thanks again to organizers @rsaorg.bsky.social for all of your hard work. If you're looking for something to fill that post-conference void, consider submitting your work to SEL! Check out SEL's website for our submission guidelines.

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Happy #RenSA26 to all who's attending! Thanks to the amazing organizers at @rsaorg.bsky.social. We are excited for everyone's work!!!

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

SEL's partner publication, Marginalia, has a new interview series. Take a first listen to our upcoming conversation with Dr. Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Assistant Professor of English and author of Overdetermined: How Indian English Literature Becomes Ethnic, Postcolonial, and Anglophone.

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